In case anyone is wondering, F2P = free to play, P2P = pay to play, P2W = Pay to Win, B2P = Buy to Play
that stated, let me get started:
The current state of the game is, F2P without cash shop so far, thre WILL be a cash shop in the game, and it probably won’t be P2W
A lot of people compare this game to Ragnarok Online, i started playing ragnarok online in 2004, and stopped only this year because of ToS!
RO biggest flaws are: Full of bots/Gold Sellers and definitely pay to win
ToS can, and must, not follow this steps! and this can simply be solved with a few changes:
First, this game is on Steam, people who uses steam are likely to pay a few bucks for games, it should be B2P, but NOT with a montly fee, just a simbolic 10~20 bucks one time only
Plus this game must DEFINITELY uses steam VAC system, some people may not know, but Steam has this Valve Anti-Cheat system, that permanent ban cheaters from playing VAC-Secured games
why this? simple, with the 10~20 bucks + VAC, gold sellers will struggle to invade the game, as soon as they got caught they’ll get VAC banned and will need to create new Steam Accounts, but doing so will mean they’ll need to buy the game again, and this is not that good for their business
And if you’re under 15 years old and don’t have 20 bucks (or in case you’re in college, haha, sad life < /3 ), you can just ask your parents or someone to gift you the game, seriously, it’s not that much
P2P will also make things easier to the game to not go P2W, the Cash Shop could sell only costumes, headgears, armband and even maybe weapon-costumes, and these MUST NOT BE TRADEABLE
(LOL just sells skins – A.K.A. costumes – and look how much money they earn!!)
Costumes (cosmetics in general) should be earned in events, wich should be done regularly, so even if you don’t want to pay, you’ll still have some fashion clothes to wear (like halloween / christmas things)
“But i don’t want to buy things with real money and i want those cash shop costumes!!!”
think about it, if costumes were in fact tradeable, what would prevent some rich guys to buy 1000 costumes, sell them, and buy top-tier equipment? no matter what, cash shop items must not be tradeable, or else people will always find a way to pay to win, it’s inevitable.
With this single small changes here’s a list of things we’ll have
1 - No Gold-sellers (or at least very few)
2 - No bots (VAC bans ftw)
3 - No P2W (1 time payment just to buy the game, and no benefits from cash shop)
4 - No vip-like system (those things like, you must buy it if you want to be top-tier player)
5 - Developers will gain a lot of money from new players + costumes (wich will lead to a lot of new content)
if all these things do happen, the only thing we’ll need is a bug-free game (seems like a far away dream haha), and this game will be like the MMO Dream, and we’ll all be able to play it for years to come <3